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M.A. University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. New York University
I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in African history, world history, the history of empires, comparative slavery and emancipation, and historical methods. I have won an Outstanding Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at New York University and a Clinical Faculty Teaching Award at USF St. Petersburg.
I am a historian of Africa. Broadly, my research explores citizenship and nationality in colonial and postcolonial Africa; colonial law and administration; and mobility within and across imperial boundaries, with an emphasis on the French empire. My current work examines the legal and political history of citizenship in French colonial Senegal.
I have received research support from the Fulbright-Hays Program and the Hurst Institute in Legal History. I have also presented my research at conferences in Africa, Europe, and North America.